What shamelessly materialist things do you currently desire, why, and how likely are you to purchase them in the near future?
Please feel free to start a different thread about the rights and wrongs of this 🙂
I'll go first:
1) New caravan, for holidays and races, hopefully in the next couple of years.
2) Wide angle lens, for taking pictures, hopefully before the summer's gone and I've left the mountains
3) Floor loom for Mrs Grips, so she can make blankets and bedspreads, within a year 🙂
4) Tripod, for macro pictures, within a year
World peace.
And a Supercharged Lotus Exige.
just because
charm.. I have no need to purchase such items 😉
1) smartphone - unlikely
Thats the only material good I have been coveting recently - which is surprising as I don't even have a mobile.
Other than that nothing really. Dunno if thats sad lack of ambition or being fulfilled with my lot.
1) Giant Anthem X29er
2) New Large Estate Car to carry bikes and kit in.
That is all.
Merlin Rocket.
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Race wheels for my road bike and a Tumi bag for work.
A full English and a decent coffee, everything else is just [i]Stuff[/i]
World peace.
And an Aston Martin DB7 Vantage
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Campervan
Telecaster
2 new bikes
Bagpuss - when we get what we want, we'll go out for a race 8)
Really fancy another tattoo.
Or some pet fish.
A proper workstand would be useful.
I'm not that good at shameless materialism - at the moment I'd rather have more spare time than more stuff.
I want a turbo trainer, because I can't get out as much as I want to...
Udder - that looks fab, I wish I could sail. My father in law lives by a big lake that's connected to the Great Lakes, and he has a boat (ok so it needs work..) Just need to make it over there in summer time with enough time...
everything else is just Stuff
Yep, and as such qualifies for this thread. No philosophy here.
Oh and please state why you want the things.
Dave, you play guitar too?
What bikes?
This:
at the moment I'd rather have more spare time than more stuff.
And a cyclocross bike.
Oh, and some Paclite trousers.
Not philosophising, but all the bikes are good, no upgraditus at the mo, house is good, campervan is good (nearly sold it but I love it too much) and running sweet, wifey is top, animal menagerie are all healthy and happy
I'm hungry and want coffee is all
I would like:
1 A 1983 Audi Quattro
2 My old Yeti FRO back
3 A Cotic X (in orange, thankyou)
4 The wife to develop neck down alopecia
Kahni - I too am happy with the bikes. I just want one decent one for the different kinds of riding I do and that's ok. Next one I get will be a track bike, since they are kind of mandatory for track racing 🙂
Forgot about the cross bike, i'd like one of those too for winter training and fun and an Omega Speedmaster X-33 to tell the time in an unnecesserily flashy way
4 The wife to develop neck down alopecia
LOL
Freedom from Desire
I have some of that DD, XL catering pack, £125 a month to you mucker...
£125 a month to you mucker...
Done!
Want
Erm
No, I not want.
Gimme.
Bike wants...
Nicolai Helius AM
Yeti ASR5c
Cotic Soul
A XC race hardtail, TBD
A fancy carbon road bike
Bike bits...
New saddle for road bike, fizik arione probably.
Power tap hub so I can finally return the test wheel to my LBS.
Boat wants...
Sold my RS400 recently so now boatless. Quite fancy going back to a laser.
Shed wants...
Want to replace two of my sheds with a big brick built outbuilding. Project for next year maybe.
A new more exciting job would be good too but that's not really a material thing.
Ok, so you dragged me in.
I don't have desire for objects (so much), I have desire to DO things. Some of those things need objects unfortunately.
1. My house sale and purchase to complete this side of June. I'm now lodging with the inlaws and it looks like we've another two weeks of this.
2. A Rotring Rapid Pro mechanical pencil. Should be with me tomorrow.
3. Pair of Conti GP4S tyres for commuting on my carbon road bike. Distinctly extravagent.
Once you have freed yourself from desire, only then can you embark on the path to Nirvana.
Lets see:
Walking trousers that don't fall down or look stupid.
Ipad, Iphone, Ilaptop thingy.
Kindle
PS3
Spare Cotic Soul, Cotic Soda.
Carbon Road bike, steel roadbike, cross bike, BMX, full Suss, new commuter, BMX.
A motorbike, and a off road motorbike, and a quad bike.
A house to my design.
A garage to my design
A shed to my design
A Ferrari bike van thing (with a cannon).
A million holidays.
An electric guitar that plays what I'm thinking.
A unicorn.
World Peace, and an end to poverty, everywhere.
The ability to invent anything, so I could own the worlds first Chainsawphone.
If I lived near a track I'd want one too,
bacon and coffee is where it's at now though
M'ungry 😕
The ability to invent anything, so I could own the worlds first Chainsawphone
LOVL!!!!
A teleportation device or a chauffer driven tour bus.
My business to be very profitable again.
I'm not really hankering for much at the moment.
I'd quite like a big campervan and a big motorbike but I'd never fit the former up the drive and the latter would see me dead so it's probably good I have neither.
time
a chauffer driven tour bus
For what? Touring the country's MTB events? That'd be a good life, for a while at least 🙂
Molgrips that one comes second to the teleportation device.
It would mean I could leave work on a Friday and wake up Saturday, somewhere else, fully rested. I might even get a spinning bike, rowing machine and jacuzzi put in.
An invisibility cloak 8)
My home boradband to work quicker (not really material thing) - hopefully it'll get sorted soon.
A service for my Cannon 18-75 (it errors on every flash shot at the moment) - chance of getting it - not very
A service for my rear shock - it's making a squishing sound but performing ok so I figure it'll need doing at the end of the year.
A Honda Civic type R - really want - again unlikely to happen for at least a year.
A BBQ and some garden furniture as this is my first year of having a garden in about 10 years. Actully guarenteed to happen as we have invited people to the bbq even with nowhere to sit and nothing to cook it on.
Things my money is likely to go on instead:
A washing machine where the spin cycle doesn't sound like a rocket launch (bearings are shot)
A new energy efficient boiler in the airing cupboard - not the crappy old back boiler we have now in the lounge - then I'll probably need to re-decorate the lounge 🙁
Still all in all I actually have lots of great stuff and just got some nice new shoes (Shimano MP66's) in the mail this morning.
A Campervan
A new set of leathers as mine have 'shrunk'
A bigger garden
The moon on a stick
I have loads on my dream list, but as far as realistic things within the next month:
Cane Creek Double Barrel shock
New flat pedals
New stem & bars
New mtb bike for the mrs
Within next 12 months:
new house with garden and workshop
Thats it really but im sure the list will dramatically increase once i move back to the UK
Without even taking the piss this is my current want list.
1. New car for me maybe a 335D touring
2. New car for the Mrs a Kia Sportage or a Ford C-Max
3. Conservatory
4. A 29er xc bike
Those are the semi realistic wants if we went unrealistic lottery winning wants we would be here all day.
A ConceptSailRacing mast for my Finn..... it may make me faster (probably not but looks lovely in a sexy carbon mast-type way)
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But at £3k I doubt it's going to happen - thing of beauty though (eye of the beholder content).
oh.... and an iPad (work type thing that 'may' happen)
More work.
Bennt-Udder: Merlins look fab, never sailed one though. Somewhat pricey I think but absolute bandits on handicap.
Boat wants...
Sold my RS400 recently so now boatless. Quite fancy going back to a laser
quite a good time to sell the 400 I think, but not a good time to buy a Laser (check out the massive issues that threaten to screw the class completely - including dropping form the Olympics). Finn mate.... you want a Finn 🙂
1. Quickly find a job in accountancy when I graduate.
2. That lovely carbon/steel Lemond from Classifieds.
3. Volvo V70 (XC or normal).
That should be it 🙂
The return of decent health.
Materialistic - a road bike will do, as would a houseful of gundogs. 8)
New wheels for my Soda (next month)
New bars and Ti Spring for my Uzzi (next couple of months)
Fast prime lens and a way of doing offboard flash for my camera - next 6 months. Maybe a tripod too.
New house not in London. This is mostly dependent on some b~gger finally ponying up some cash for our flat. Then the dream bike store/workshop to go with it. ASAP please!
New custom xcr or Ti roadbike - next 4 years.
Pair of Tannoy GRF loudspeakers, plus a big enough listening room to make owning them worthwhile. Pipedream
BMW 335d touring with all the toys. Highly unlikely short of a lottery win.
Lotus Elise, but I'd settle for a supercharged MX 5. Maybe (very maybe) in the next 10 years....?
